Conservation Science

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Peter Vickery

1990 Fellow
Peter D. Vickery was president of a new non-profit organization, the Center for Ecological Research. He was on the graduate faculty at the University of Maine, Orono and the Department of Natural Resources Conservation at the University of...
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Jefferson Hall

1991 Fellow
Jefferson Hall is the Director of the Program for Applied Ecology in the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). In this capacity he is leading the effort to develop an Applied Ecology...
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Darold Batzer

1989 Fellow
Daryl is an associate professor of entomology at the University of Georgia, and studies the ecology and environmental biology of wetland invertebrates. Daryl and his students work extensively with the trophic ecology of invertebrates, and...
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Walter Poleman

1994 Fellow
Walter left nine years of work as an environmental educator to study in the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont. For his Master's project, he evaluated forest inventory techniques as a part of a sustainable forest...
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Marcy Mahr

1992 Fellow
I have been a Switzer Fellow since 1992, and am very grateful to have received Environmental Leadership awards during 2000-2003 to support my work in conservation science for the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) Conservation Initiative. For over...
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Joanne Michaud

1993 Fellow
For her graduate work at the University of Rhode Island, Joanne studied the effects of habitat size and isolation of southern Rhode Island peatlands on occupancy by the bog copper butterfly (Lycaena epixanthe). Her work with the Rhode...
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Peter Vorster

1990 Fellow
Peter Vorster has 40 years of experience as a hydrogeographer, much of it focused on California's water resources and the landmark water conflicts in the Eastern Sierra (Mono Lake and the Owens Valley) and the San Francisco Bay-Delta...
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Lissa Widoff

1992 Fellow
Lissa Widoff is the former Executive Director of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation (www.switzernetwork.org), an environmental foundation based in Belfast, Maine that supports graduate Fellowships in New England and California and a...
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Bradford Meiklejohn

1993 Fellow
Brad directs the Alaska office of The Conservation Fund, focusing on land acquisition and habitat protection. In 1995 and 1996, The Conservation Fund was instrumental in the addition of 300,000 acres of brown bear habitat to the Kodiak...
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Aram Calhoun

1991 Fellow
Aram completed her Dissertation in 1996 looking at the role of methanotrophic bacteria on various marsh plants in mitigating methane emission from freshwater marshes. She has worked professionally as an environmental educator and a wetland...